Hand-Forged Garden Trowel
High-carbon steel with an ash handle and depth marks.
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- Hand-forged high-carbon steel, full tang
- Turned ash-wood handle
- Depth markings for precise planting
- Built to last generations
Field-tested performance
The details that matter
Everything that ships
- Hand-forged trowel
- Leather hanging loop
- Care card
Honest note: this is carbon steel, not stainless. Leave it out in the rain and it will spot with surface rust. Ten seconds with a rag after use is the whole maintenance — do that and it outlives you.
Questions, answered
Does high-carbon steel rust?
It can if left wet — that is the trade for a blade that holds an edge and stays stiff. Wipe it dry and oil it occasionally and it lasts a lifetime.
Is it heavy?
It has real heft — that mass is what powers through hard soil. Most people find it reassuring rather than tiring.
Pairs well with
Why we grow it this way
The last trowel you will buy
Most trowels bend on the first rocky bed. This one is forged by hand from high-carbon steel with a full tang running through a turned ash handle — the construction that lets it lever out roots and rocks without folding. Depth markings on the blade turn planting into a measurement instead of a guess.
Each piece carries the hammer marks of the forge, so no two are identical. Buy it once; hand it down.
What growers say
Feels like an heirloom already
Heavy, balanced, and it laughs at the rocky soil that bent my old trowel. The depth marks are more useful than I expected.
Worth every penny
Beautiful tool that works as good as it looks. Keep it dry and oiled. I gave one to my dad and kept one for myself.
Great tool, mind the rust
Superb in the ground. Docking nothing on quality — just know it is carbon steel and needs a wipe-down. Left it out once and learned my lesson.